Health 100 Ch 1

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What are the immediate rewards of healthy behaviors.

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Avoid illness, succeed in school, maintain supportive friendships, participate in meaningful work and community activities and enjoy your leisure time.

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What are the long term rewards of healthy behaviors?

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Longer life expectancy and successful aging.

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Enumerate the effects that personal health choices have on others.

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Obesity impacts the U.S. health system and economy. The medical costs of obesity in the U.S. are near 150 billion each year, it also causes in increase in disability payments from the government and a rise in health insurance rates as claims rise obesity treatments. Caregivers must make emotion, financial, and social sacrifices.

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What is the medical model?

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Prior to the twentieth century the medical model dominated health perceptions. Health status was focused primarily on the individual and his or her physical health. The surest way to improve health was to cure the Individual's disease through surgery or medication. So, resources were focused on treatment than preventjon.

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What is the public health model?

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In the early 1900s, researchers began to recognize the entire population of poor people were victim's of things out of their control causing their illnesses. As a result researchers began to focus on an ecological or public health model. Which is the view that diseases and other negative health events are seen as a result of an individual's interactions with his or her environment. This health model emphasizes health promotion (policies and programs that promote behaviors known to support good health)

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Define health?

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Is the state of omplete physical, mental , and social well being.

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List and describe the 6 dimensions of health: Physical health:

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It includes features like shape and size of body. As well as your body's ability to perform at optimum levels. Also, the ability to avoid or manage injury or illness. Also, your ability to maintain equilibrium in the face of adversity.

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List and describe the 6 dimensions of health: Social Health

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The ability to have a broad social network and maintain satisfying interpersonal

Reslationships with friends, family members, and partners is a key part of overall wellnrss.

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List and describe the 6 dimensions of health: Intellectual health

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This dimension encompasses the ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze critically, and use brain power effectively to meet life's challenges.

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List and describe the 6 dimensions of health: Emotional health

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This is the feeling component, being able to express emotions when appropriate, and to control them when not. Also, includes emotional intelligence, which is the ability to identify and manage emotional responses in positive ways.

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List and describe the 6 dimensions of health: Spiritual health

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This dimension involves creating and expressing meaning and purpose in your life

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List and describe the 6 dimensions of health: Environmental health

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This dimension entails understanding how the health of the environments in which you can live positively or negatively affect you.

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Define modifiable determinants

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These significantly influence your risk for chronic disease they are responsible

For 7 out 10 deaths in the United States. Incredibly 4 modifiable determinants are responsible for most chronic diseases and premature deaths. They those listed in the next flash cards.

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Identify modifiable personal factors that influence health: Lack of Physical Activity

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Research suggests that 10 or more hours of physical inactivity each day more than double the risk of death from any cause.

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Identify modifiable personal factors that influence health: Poor Nutrition

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Multiple studies have linked diets low in fruits and vegetables with an increase risk of death.

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Identify modifiable personal factors that influence health:Excessive Alcohol Consumption

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Alcohol causes 88,000 deaths yearly in adults, through cardiovascular disease, motor vehicle accidents, and violence.

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Identify modifiable personal factors that influence health: Tobacco use

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Causes cancers, high blood pressure, and respiratory diseases. It is responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths of American adults through illnesses.

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Define ADL:

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Activities of Daily living that are essential for daily living or to function normally in society.

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Identify nonmodifiable personal factors that influence health (These are things you can't change): Biology and genetics

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Sickle cell disease, hemophilia, and cystic fibrosis, are examples of single gene disorders, predispositions to certain conditions such as allergies diabetes and cardiovascular disease are an example of nonmodifiable.

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Identify nonmodifiable personal factors that influence health (These are things you can't change): Social Factors

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Include both social and physical conditions in the environment in which people are born or live. Examples: exposure to crime, violence, mass media, technology, poverty, availability of healthful foods, transportation, social support, educational, or job opportunities. Physical conditions include the natural environment.

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Identify nonmodifiable personal factors that influence health (These are things you can't change): Economic Factors

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People in lower socioeconomic brackets have on average substantially shorter life expectancies and more illnesses than the wealthy.

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Identify nonmodifiable personal factors that influence health (These are things you can't change): The built environmemt

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Anything created or modified by human beings, including buildings, roads, recreaction areas, transportation systems, electric transmission lines, and communication cables. Changes to the built environment that can improve health are increased construction of parks and supermarkets in underserved areas.

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Define health disparities:

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Differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other health conditions among specific population groups.

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What is the Health Belief Model?

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A classic model of behavior change that proposes that our beliefs influence these behaviors. This model states that several factors must support a belief before change is likely.

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Stages of Health Belief Model: Perceived susceptibility to the health problem

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People who perceive themselves at high risk are more likely to take prevention action.

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Stages of Health Belief Model: Perceived Benefits

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People are more likely to take action if they be.ieve that this action will benefit them.

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Stages of Health Belief Model: Perceived Barriers

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Even if a recommended action is perceived to be effective the individual may believe it too difficult or inconvenient. These barriers must be acknowledged as less important than the perceived benefits.

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Stages of Health Belief Model: Cues to action

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A person is reminded or alterted about a potential health problem by anything from symptoms to emails is more likely to take action.

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Define the social-cognitive model (SCM):

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This model proposes that three factors interact in a reciprocal fashion to promote and motivate change.

-social environent we live in

-Cognition: our thoughts, values, beliefs, and expectations.

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Define the Transtheoretical Model:

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Belief that behavior change usually does not succeed if we start with the change itself. Instead, we must go through a series of stages to adequately prepare ourselves for change.

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Stages of the Transtheoretical Model: Precontemplation

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People in the Precontemplation stage have no current intention of changing.

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Stages of the Transtheoretical Model: Contemplation

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People recognize they have a problem and begin to contemplate change.

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Stages of the Transtheoretical Model: preparation

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Close to taking action. They've thought of what they might do and may have come up with a plan. Thus, more ready than those who have not prepared.

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Stages of the Transtheoretical Model: Action

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People begin to act out their plan

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Stages of the Transtheoretical Model: Maintenance

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People work toward making the change a permanent part of their life. Relapse can happen.

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Stages of the Transtheoretical Model: Termination

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By this point the behavior is so ingrained that constant vigilance may be unnecessary and the new behavior has become permanent.

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Define HRQL:

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Health related quality of life